Sixty8panther

How about both? YES PLEASE! :)

The point is they made millions of Escort Hatches, a 1961 Cadillac was a rare car to begin with. Not a throwaway econobox. If you were driving a '61 Caddy new you were SOMEONE. It made you a VIP just by the virtue of the fact that it was stil the Standard of the World. Thsio was before emissions bullshit, cats, evap canisters, 4100, diesels, FWD miniature sedans and even before the dissapearance of fins.

Congrats in advace... we want those photos the SECOND you pick it up! On second thought AFTER you run out of gas money and finally have to go home and stop driving it THEN post the pics. :)

Jezzus Guys take a breath and think for a minute... He was being sarcastic. Substitute "American" for "Japanese" and you have a very over used gripe form the Automotive rags. Give 'em hell Balthazar I got your back! :)

Before I read your post Ocnblu I was JUST about to say: what if it's just an oil change, tire rotation or a tranny flush you go in for? Car was not broken when it went in. I don't knoiw about this blue Beetle but Earl Gray Tea is no substitute for 10W40. :P

No offense taken, who else but a dumbass would drive around in a 377 horsepower Camaro with brakes that could be described as "marginal at best"? Ahh sho aint no learn-ed folk like all ya's city guys with yer fancy-schmancy Toy-o-durs. Reg: Al I have to say is if Pinoccio symbolised Toyota the nose would be about as long as the state of Texas is wide. Great post. :P

The Purple Prototype (W8?) was featured in that awsome Australian TV show "Beyond 2000" in the mid 1990s on the Discovery Channel. (or perhaps it was TLC) It was a very cool car frmo my teenage perspective, very different fomr Lamborghini and more original than the typical Exotic car.

Wow... cool it's like collectively we at C&G are like a retarded Sherlock Holmes.

Guilty. Usually they're good people but I've had one experience with an a$$hole I had to practically shove out of my STS with my boot. He kept asking for money and saying "C'mon you driving a Cadillac you can spare a $20". I was like 'get the f*** out of my car...' I was willing to drive out of my way slightly but I'm not a freekin millionare who can hand out $20 bills to strangers, this guy was a pushy jerk. Then again I met some cool peolpe over the years who just needed to get another few miles down the road. In my old POS 1983 Firebird I gave these two chicks a ride down the street to Lowell ans they bought me KFC.

Hmmmm... I think you're right LA, can't be a Celebrity since the ights do seem to be slightly wraparound. Century seems liek agood guess though Skyhawk in still a possibility.

Okay... I'll give you the Si But for every ONE Si Honda must have made about 300 EX and HF Civics.

Satty: I'll respond to this when I quit laughing. The whale, the old man's car, the least sporty car of the 90's, probably shouldn't have been Car of the Year, unless there were no other domestic debuts that year. Wow. Worst COTY EVER! Like a Tilt-A-Whirl on wheels, getting thrown in every direction without a hint of body control. I would love to know what the Caprice was up against. Had to have been some super-crappy competition for a car thats only really good at getting grandma to church to win. Plenty of room in the backseat to get Sodomized though. Thanks for you insight on how the Caprice did not stack up well in the skidpadd test & cornering department when comapared to a 5.0 Mustang. :rolleys: I think the Honda Civic sucks becasue it is not avaiblable with a bench seat or air ride suspension. [/emulative sarcasm]

please elaborate:

If I have to own a mid size FWD car from the late 80s the Grand Prix makes a great choice. A 5-speed was still available as were DOHC and Turbocharged engines. Next queston: 1992 Seville and the subsuqent Northstar was an AMAZING vehicle. A+++ all the way. Think about it: 99% of the time I hate FWD and yet I own a 1997 STS. Back in the late 90s my best friends mom had a 1992 SLS and we used to go joyriding in that car... years after it debued it still looked better INHO than most of the new luxury cars. (Lexus, Acura, Infiniti...) K-car... you MUST be freekin Joking right??? If you think there is anything positive about a Chrysler K car then you are living in a fantasy world. Brand new they were still worthless. Yes it saved Chrylser in the 1980s when cars were a dirty word but they were still horrific cars. Ugly, slow & unergonomic with the durrability of a Wal*mart Throwaway camera. Now onto the piece de resistance: The Chrysler 300M. First off do you know why it was originally called a "300" series car? Thought not. It was because the originals w/ fire breathing V8s (like the original HEMIs) had 300+ horsepower. Evry one from the original 300(a) to the 300L had a big genuine V8, RWD and a roomy cabin with luxurious styling. So assuming that you don't find it's FWD layout completely unappealing given the car's heretige the 240 horsepower still makes the car one of the most undeservig car ever to wear a classic car nameplate. 240 Horsepower is pretty damn short of 300 horsepower. Not even close. Do not pass 'Go' do NOT colect $200. You're fired. The car's short rear overhang and feminime fascia also did not appeal to me at all. If they had called it a Newport or Imperial I would still call it lame but at least it would not be insulting. The new 300C does everything right that the old 300M got wrong. It eliminates the feminine & compact styling cues, brings togeather a modern HEMI wiht RWD and a IRS plus a rock soild chassis with a decent tranny unlike the POS FWD ones that seem to blow up atwo Transmissions every fiscal year. I'll agree with you about '84 and '88 even though I would still have never bought one except for maybe a CRX.

Skyhawk is a good guess... for some reason I'm getting a Chevy Celebrity vibe.

It's on my agenda right after I saw off my legs with a steak knife and have a plutonium soaked granola bar.

Three years ago I said the only thing the 350Z/G35 need is a highed end 4.5 V8 powered variant. Limited production would be fine but I'm sure they'll sell al the ycan make.

I love tailfins! :D

Wow... the other day I got an email from a friend asking how in the world I did not mention to him my car was all over the internet. I was like Uhhhh, it's on my website and C&G but where else? American Muscle Car Association Home Page! he replies. I had almost forgoten about it and certainly had not anticipated it staying up there for like 4 months. Sweet! :) http://www.musclecarnationals.com/index2.htm direct link: http://www.musclecarnationals.com/feature1.htm

Wow, another thread I missed. I need to get a laptop for my next roadtrip... Then again with my priorities I'll buy a 1959 Buick first! :)

Inspection Sticker and Free tank of gas are pretty standard these days, new or used. They were at Chebby of Lowell.... except as you can imagine guess who picked up the tab for both on my STS? You guessed it, your trully.

Slap some twenty-fos on that Bee-otch and you be ridin in style with an icy smile! WURD! :P

Wow... that's a funny pic. but if it was my car Saab or not I'd be pissed. If it was just some random SAAB I happened to buy as a daily diver I'd be more pissed about the incovenience of a rental and the other bullshit associated with it. But as Aaaaantoine said: that's why the shops have insurance. BUT, imagine this was something I cared about like my '79 Coupe DeVille... I'd be pretty pissed off!

Wow, I had always assumed they built something like 200 of them... I must have at least 70 photos of Vectors in all differetn colors that I've 'right clicked' over the years. I guess repainting the original car and showig it off for a decade will do that. Carol Shelby did the same thing wiht the original AC Corba roadster.

One time while working at Chevy of Lowell I traded in a 1997 Cadillac STS with 101,000 miles on the odometer. The car was pretty nice and since we only gave him $6500 for a trade in value I thoguht I'd pick it up. A few of my co workers told me to just get the Assistant manager to bullshit the paperwork and buy it at $6500 for the dealer before the owner even sees the car.... after all that's exactly how one of the other salesman had bought his used 2001 Catera. $0 profit to the dealership. What did I do? I decided to do the 'right thing'. I went riht to the owner and told Mr. Lanan that I wanted to buy this STS for my myself & Girlfriend and that I'd arrange al the financing and hammer out all the details, otherwise I'd take the car as is, no safety check, cleanup, oil change and all the other bullshit they do to all used cars. I offered $6900. In other words $400 profit just because the car sat in his parking lot for ONE day. So what does Mr. Lanan say to me? "Look kid you made me a decent chunk of change just by selling that Silverado the guy traded this in on so let's just say $6700 and the car is yours!" NO actually, I'm kidding. I wish he had said that. He said he'd look into it.... The next day he walked past my deska and dropped off a piece of paper wiht $7900 highlited... it was the average auction value for that year/model STS in the N.E. area. So what did I do? Did I say Screw this, I'm not giving him $1400 profit just because it took up a parking spot for one night! NO. I was a retard and said "Fine" drove to Worker's Credit Union and got a loan for $7000, and payed the rest with a credit card. So let's recap.... I made the company about $3000 gross profit when I sold the Silverado. My cut (commision) out of that was like $600. Then I bought the very same car I had negotiated the trade in on and gave the owner $1400 for it even though he never touched it. No clean up, no safety check, no auction fees or commisions... NOTHING! Just because he's the man who ownes the dealership and I (being a retard) did not want to be a cocksmootch and buy it before he even saw it on the books. So I ask you? Do you think I have good luck wiht Freebies? <_<